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Mark Pack

Marked registers lost, votes counted up wrongly – but Returning Officer judged to have met performance standards

By Mark Pack | Wed 8th December 2010 - 11:55 am

My original headline was going to be “One-third of (Acting) Returning Officers assess their own performance wrongly”, but the more closely I look at the latest Returning Officer performance data from the Electoral Commission, the worse it looks.

A sample survey by the Electoral Commission of the performance self-assessment exercise by (Acting) Returning Officers found that 33 out of 100 had assessed their own performance wrongly. The findings, detailed in the Commission’s report on the latest performance standards (p.6-7), call into question how useful the assessment system really is.

But even worse than this headline figure, in Wolverhampton the Returning Officer …

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Mark Pack

Wolverhampton election investigation raises more doubts over how election was run

By Mark Pack | Tue 16th November 2010 - 12:26 pm

Wolverhampton signFollowing the revelations that the Wolverhampton South West result showed more ballot papers being counted than had been issued and that the official marked register for part of the constituency had gone missing both Wolverhampton Council and the Electoral Commission have been investigating.

The investigations have not only failed to locate the missing electoral register but also found that part of the marked register also went missing in a second Parliamentary constituency, Wolverhampton North East.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the ballot paper number discrepancy …

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Mark Pack

Marked register goes missing in Wolverhampton

By Mark Pack | Thu 2nd September 2010 - 4:28 pm

More problems with the general election administration have come to light in Wolverhampton South West, with the news that one of the marked registers has gone missing. An investigation is already taking place into a mismatch between the number of ballot papers counted and the number issued, with more having been recorded as counted than were officially issued.

The latest news has been reported by the Wolverhampton Express & Star:

A register containing the names and addresses of hundreds of Wolverhampton voters has gone missing…

It contains names and addresses of up to 500 voters along with a mark to say

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Mark Pack

The mysterious 66 votes in Wolverhampton South West

By Mark Pack | Wed 25th August 2010 - 9:54 am

According to the official election results, Wolverhampton South West saw more votes cast than there had been ballot papers issued.

Wolverhampton signAt the count there were 40,160 votes totalled up in the general election in May. However, the official records show that only 40,094 ballot papers should have been in the count, 66 less than the number of votes counted. This is not a simple matter of a typo in the official records, because Wolverhampton Council has confirmed that these two figures are the ones official …

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